Sentence examples for are usually mere from inspiring English sources

His protagonists are typically solitary adventurers, and his stories are usually mere clotheslines on which chance encounters and running gags are hung.

Danvers, the austere and homoerotic housekeeper in "Rebecca," or Catherine Tramell, the cool putative murderess of "Basic Instinct"—seem to pose a physical and sexual menace; the Miss Havishams of the canon, bizarre and aloof, are usually mere eccentrics).

(It's telling that many iconically creepy women — Mrs. Danvers, the austere and homoerotic housekeeper in "Rebecca," or Catherine Tramell, the cool putative murderess of "Basic Instinct" — seem to pose a physical and sexual menace; the Miss Havishams of the canon, bizarre and aloof, are usually mere eccentrics).

This sense of doubleness — that what is presented as moral logic is usually mere self-sustained ritual — became essential to Montaigne's view of the world.

The problems that have to be dealt with during decision making processes on the siting of wind turbines are usually referred to as mere 'communication problems'.

Those who pass the concept off as a mere buzzword are usually established executives, who are resistant and may see groups of intrepreneurs as a vigilante approach to business.

PC games (that's from-the-ground-up PC games, not mere ports) are usually more complex than console games, so after years of getting used to playing, say, Eve Online (or name-your-complex-game), they've developed better skills?

On Tuesday, a sideways jump that is usually a mere transition became colossal.

In this technique, the flux components are affected by more neighboring points as opposed to the mere two points that are usually used in traditional finite volume methods.

Angel investors are usually wealthy individuals who are more interested in mentoring than mere profits alone.

Every year, 800,000 children under age 5 living in the developing world die from a disease that's usually considered a mere annoyance in the West diarrhea.